First in the two-night series. live on espn1420am.com and radio.
livestats through UCSDTritons.com

listening to the pregame on radio and Hawaii will be short in the middle again. Shane Welch didn’t make the trip so they’re going with Lofy. Warriors should be able to get away with that tonight. Lofy is big but doesn’t give you much offense.
starting lineup for Hawaii: Walker, Umlauft, Dyer, Lofy, Zemljak, Castello, Hunt.

also have BYU vs. UCI on TV OC 409 right now. Looking like Cougars will win in a sweep. up 2-0 and winning Set 3.

UH not off to a sharp start. Hunt and Walker both blocked. UCSD leads 9-6. TO UH
Hawaii has settled down, taking advantage of UCSD serving errors and overpasses. UH up 14-12. TO Tritons.
Hawaii’s two-point lead has disappeared and UCSD has taken a 20-19 lead. TO UH.
Umlauft with his 7th kill and UH has a block. Warriors up 21-20. TO UCSD.

don’t know why he didn’t make the trip. Wade alluded to the flu that Umlauft had last week. Since they’re not supposed to divulge illnesses, we can only assume. I’ll ask when I chat with him after the match.

Hmmm, could Set 5 be in our future? UCSD up 20-19. UH TImeout. Umlauft kill makes it 20-20.
Biscaro in for blocking purposes and Lofy team on a block. 21-20 UH. Timeout UCSD
Tritons close it out 25-23, scoring the final three points. On to Set 5.

at least they should have won in 4.
it’s 7-5 with UCSD calling a timeout
Hawaii closes to 7-6
It’s 8-6 at the changeover.
well, just think that Hawaii was up 8-5 when losing in 5 to Stanford last week at the changeover.

The other 2 five set losses were pretty close. However, UH should have won tonight in 4. I was hoping they wouldn’t go to 5 since they have been unsuccessful this year. Unfortunately, it went to 5 – same result as the other 2. Got to be frustrating for the guys, too.

It has got to be frustrating for Umlauft who plays his heart out every game only to have the team lose.

It is a little bit like Alex Klineman who won all these awards including the recent POY, however, one thing she never got was the national championship for Stanford women. I guess a lot has to do with the supporting teammates.

I don’t think I made myself clear. I do understand that team success is more important to most players. What I was actually saying was that despite Klineman and Umlauft being outstanding players, in Klineman’s case, she wasn’t able to win a national championship because it seemed maybe her team had a lack of chemistry, in that they were not clicking well all at the same time.

Like with UH now, they have come close to beating Penn, Stanford and San Diego with Umlauft playing well, but then either Hunt or Walker was not playing well when they needed to. So in a sense, there is a lack of chemistry or cohesiveness that allows them to beat some good teams.

So Hunt was pulled during the UCSD match at 8-6?? if that is true, when is he going to learn that is behavior is detrimental to this team’s success. My goodness. It’s a shame because this kid has the talent to be one of the top OH’s in the conference.

The guy just lets frustration get the best of him, he needs to get over bad things and concentrate. He let a few serves go and they were called in, got frustrated and proceded to shank the next serves…….

Watching TV I noticed a lot of “block and out” by UH. Also, is that stat tracked? When you “block and out” it means the other team scores a point. During the set, sometimes that results in 3-5 points for the other team. Seems to me that UH needs to practice their technique so that blocks result in points for UH.

you’ll notice that UH does a lot of ‘tooling’ the block as well. there is a stat for Blocking error but that isn’t what you’re asking. the block-and-out is not a stat in the box but one that coaches look at when reviewing film. There is a new stat program being developed that a lot of schools are investing in. Lead guy was at the OUtrigger to discuss personalizing the program to what UH coaches wanted.
some of the block and out … is being late on the block, not closing when there’s two guys up, etc. someone who is really good at tooling is Chanteal Satele. It helps a smaller player score against a taller block.